[484] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, Minutes of Supreme Executive Council, March 13, 1777. The members of the Navy Board as constituted by the Supreme Executive Council were as follows: Andrew Caldwell, Joseph Blewer, Joseph Marsh, Emanuel Eyre, Robert Ritchie, Paul Cox, Samuel Massey, William Bradford, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Samuel Morris, jr., and Thomas Barclay. [485] Captains Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Read and Charles Alexander, and Lieutenant James Josiah resigned from the Pennsylvania navy to enter the Continental navy. [486] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 416-24. [487] Wallace’s William Bradford, 252-53, 366-67; Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VI, 21, 47-50. [488] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, V, 663, 721; VI, 235; VII, 165. [489] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 425-31. [490] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VI, 204. [491] Ibid., 332-33. [492] Almon’s Remembrancer, 1778, 148-50. [493] Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 300. [494] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, Minutes of Supreme Executive Council, August 14, August 16, December 9, 1778. The capture of the sloop “Active” by the “Convention” in the fall of 1778, gave rise to the most celebrated prize case of the Revolution.—Jameson, Essays in Constitutional History of United States, 17-21. [495] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 255. [496] Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, VII, 320, 476; Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XI, 724, 750; XII, 150; Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 403. [497] J. F. Jameson, Essays in Constitutional History of United States, 9. [498] Laws of Pennsylvania, September 9, 1778, March 8, 1780. [499] Ibid., September 17, 1777; March 1, 1780. [500] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 388-402. [501] Scharf and Westcott, History of Philadelphia, I, 421-22. [502] Laws of Pennsylvania, April 9, April 15, 1782; Mary Barney, Memoirs of Commodore Barney, 303-04. Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, IX, 531-32. The three Commissioners were John Patton, Francis Gurney, and William Allibone. [503] Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, XIII, Minutes of Supreme Executive Council, December 6, 1782. [504] Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd, I, 256. [505] Ibid., 1st, X, 26. CHAPTER XIV THE NAVY OF VIRGINIA